By H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — By now we all know the facts: on the last day of Passover, 2019, an anti-Semitic fanatic attacked the Chabad synagogue in Poway. He killed a woman and injured several others including the rabbi. This latest attack on Jews in America comes just months after the worst attack on […]
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San Diego CountyBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s appearance over the weekend on CBS’ Face the Nation showed him trying to convince someone — his minders at home, perhaps — that Iran is a moderate, trustworthy, terror-fighting country. The designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terror organization and the end of
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Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California — Congregation Beth El dedicated a 30 by 9 foot mural of a Tree of Life on Thursday, May 2, that incorporates, among other elements, ceramic butterflies symbolizing children who were murdered in the Holocaust. The outdoor Yom HaShoah ceremony led by the congregation’s former president Sonia Ancoli
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Travel and Food
By Peter C. Herman Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — As a Jewish professor who has published on terrorism, I’ve been asked a number of times for my thoughts on what happened in Poway. At first, I had nothing to say that has not been said a thousand times before. The shooter (I will
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPlease click on Number for previous installments: 1, 2 The Crazy Restaurant Scene (c) Edwin Black TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s adversaries in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement [BDS] thought they could starve Israel through economic warfare that included even its food sector. Many remember the BDS furor over SodaStream, Sabra hummus, ordinary fruits
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Edwin Black, Middle East, Travel and FoodEditor’s Note: This article is a short excerpt from Alon Ben-Meir’s latest essay, “Preventing an Israeli-Iran War,” published in the May 2019 issue of American Diplomacy. The full-length essay is available by clicking here By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Accusing Iran of being a rogue country bent on acquiring nuclear weapons, supporting extremist groups
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — “The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator [and Jew hater] Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe at that time. Although the term now has wide currency, it is a misnomer, since it implies a discrimination against all Semites.
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USAAsylum by Moriz Scheyer (Translated by P.N. Singer); Little, Brown and Company, 2016 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Written at the time of the actual events, this powerful book starts by describing the atmosphere in Vienna before the Anschluss by Nazi Germany, followed by the author’s flight, together with his wife and non-Jewish housekeeper, who
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By Rabbi Rafi Andrusier SAN DIEGO –My association with Chabad of Poway began before we moved to San Diego to establish a Chabad House for the eastern San Diego region in 2012. Even before I met my San Diegan wife, Chaya, in 2010. In 2007, I was a young rabbinical student in Chicago, and I
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — This has been somewhat of a surreal few days for the San Diego Jewish community. From Pittsburgh to Sri Lanka, over the past few months we have heard about attacks on houses of worship. While we gathered together and mourned with faith communities around the world, the attacks
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA
By Toby Tabachnick Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — I ran into an old friend about three weeks after the Tree of Life massacre, a former Pittsburgher, who wanted to talk about the events of Oct. 27. In particular, she wanted to know about one of the survivors, someone with whom she had grown up.
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Jewish History, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of my congregants posed an interesting question we ought to consider asking: What would Rev Martin Luther King Jr. have said about the Poway synagogue shooting? It is an important question—not just for members of the Jewish community, but also for the African-American community. Throughout
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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA